Israel Quotes

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. (David Ben-Gurion)
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. View quote
Golda Meir
Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial. View quote
Ariel Sharon
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. View quote
Abba Eban
Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury. View quote
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. View quote
Golda Meir
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever. View quote
Benjamin Netanyahu
You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation -- to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians. View quote
Ariel Sharon
The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples. (Henry Kissinger)
I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
All these cries for peace we hear in Israel, especially from our side, do not bring peace any closer -- they only push it away. If you chase peace it only eludes you. That's not game theory; that's history. View quote
Robert Aumann
Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever. View quote
Yitzhak Shamir
All of the land of Israel is ours. View quote
Yitzhak Shamir
A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal. View quote
Moshe Dayan
There is no doubt that the new wave (of attacks) in Palestine will wipe off this stigma (Israel) from the face of the Islamic world, ... The World without Zionism. View quote
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there. View quote
Natalie Portman
A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness. View quote
Duncan Hunter
When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame. (Walter Scott)
As long as Palestinian violence exists, but not a Palestinian state, Israel is in danger, because it cannot obtain assistance from the international community against an entity that is not subordinate to international law. View quote
Stephane Hessel
The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking. View quote
F. Murray Abraham
The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power. View quote
Isaac Mayer Wise
President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security. View quote
Lee H. Hamilton